The Raspberry Pi is a fabulous device to on which to build your projects. The GroveWeatherPi project is designed to show the capabilities of this computer while remaining accessible to a diverse Maker community.

GroveWeatherPi is a Solar Powered Raspberry Pi WiFi connected weather station designed for Makers by SwitchDoc Labs ( www.switchdoc.com). This is a great system to build and tinker with. All of it is modifiable and all source code is included.

This tutorial for building your own Solar Powered Weather Station based on the Raspberry Pi consists of 14 parts.

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The Raspberry Pi Python Software

A big part of the GroveWeatherPi project is the software. All of the python software for this project is up on github at the switchdoclabs section ( github.com/switchdoclabs/SDL_Pi_GroveWeatherPi ). We also included all of the various libraries for the I2C devices we are using.

Non-Normal Requirements for your Pi

You will need to add the following software and libraries to your Raspberry Pi

Note that we reboot the Pi every two days. Why do we do that? We have noticed that after heavy usage of MatPlotLib and/or MySQL, that sometimes after a long time, you run out of resources, giving all sorts of odd behavior. Since the RaspberryPi A+ has a small amount of RAM, rebooting is the easiest way of fixing it.